Fragment 57A
57AAphrodite’s handmaid bright as gold.
Χρυσοφάη θεράπαιναν Ἀφροδίτας.
Philodemus, about 60 B.C., in a MS. discovered at Herculaneum, says that Sappho thus addresses Πειθώ, Persuasion. The MS. is, however, defective, and Gomperz, the editor, thinks from the context that Hecate is here referred to. Cf. frr. 132, 125. (Bergk formerly numbered this fr. 141.)